[NNTP] LISTGROUP wording

Charles Lindsey chl at clerew.man.ac.uk
Tue Apr 26 03:38:19 PDT 2005


In <20050425164658.GH16282 at finch-staff-1.thus.net> "Clive D.W. Feather" <clive at demon.net> writes:

>+   The GROUP command selects a newsgroup as the current selected
                                                  ^^^^^^^
						  currently
>+   newsgroup and returns summary information about it.
>+
>+   The optional argument is the name of the newsgroup to be selected
>+   (e.g. "news.software.b").  If no group is specified, the current
>+   selected newsgroup is used.  A list of valid newsgroups may be
>+   obtained by using the LIST ACTIVE command (see Section 7.6.3).

Actually, "news.software.b" must be the deadest group on Usenet. I have
been subscribed to it for many years, and have yet to see an article. May
I suggest "news.software.nntp".

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